The Schuenemanns

Tony Trowbridge, Chicago Tribune

On Nov. 9, 1898, a storm sank August Schuenemann's ship, the S. Thal, near Glencoe. He and his four-man crew drowned. Though his body was never found, a grave remembers he and his wife Barbara Schuenemann at Acacia Park Cemetery in Norwood Park.

On Nov. 9, 1898, a storm sank August Schuenemann's ship, the S. Thal, near Glencoe. He and his four-man crew drowned. Though his body was never found, a grave remembers he and his wife Barbara Schuenemann at Acacia Park Cemetery in Norwood Park. (Tony Trowbridge, Chicago Tribune)

On Nov. 9, 1898, a storm sank August Schuenemann's ship, the S. Thal, near Glencoe. He and his four-man crew drowned. Though his body was never found, a grave remembers he and his wife Barbara Schuenemann at Acacia Park Cemetery in Norwood Park.